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Reuters Health News: 01-03-2005
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Canadian government has quarantined a farm in Alberta in its search for cattle connected to the country's second case of mad cow disease, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Monday.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite repeated recommendations to cook on the back burners of the stove and to turn pot handles toward the back, many parents still fail to recognize their child's potential risk for burns and scalds, new study findings suggest.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Millions of people may have survived the deadliest tsunami in living memory, but many are so deeply traumatized it will take years for them to heal, if ever, medical experts said Monday.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Wisconsin girl who received an experimental treatment to become the first person known to survive rabies without a vaccination has been released from hospital, a spokeswoman for the hospital said on Sunday.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from killer diseases, such as cholera, despite stepped up international aid, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - The British Medical Journal said on Friday it has sent documents to U.S. health regulators that appear to suggest a link between the antidepressant Prozac and suicidal behavior.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with type 1 diabetes who monitor their blood glucose daily both before and during pregnancy have better outcomes, Danish researchers report.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who suffer from migraine headaches appear to express more genes that produce platelets, the specialized components in blood that are involved in clotting, researchers report.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with advanced but localized melanoma, delivering potent chemotherapy to just the limb with the cancer is highly effective both in terms of local disease control and survival, Dutch clinicians report.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who use an inhaled steroid long-term to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or emphysema, face a loss of bone mineral density in the hip and spine, a new study shows.
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